450 2 “The nerdiest of nerds” has to be an award. I suggest we call it the “Bill James Award”. I also think for the grid that you change the honor on grid 450 to Bill James day. I say that because I’ve been waiting since I started really studying for grids. This is the first time (again, since I’ve learned this and believe me I’ve been watching) that “Braves pitcher-10 wins” and either “Orioles or Tigers 10 wins” have been on the same board. It will work for Braves 3 ERA season and Tigers, Orioles, and White Sox ERA season. I got to use William “Seattle Bill” James and William “Big Bill” James on the same Grid! They were contemporaries, so they had to come up with the nicknames. I know there’s been controversies with some of Sabermetrics Bill James. Especially some of his quotes about Pete Rose and others, but you still can’t deny the effect he has had on modern baseball. So - Happy Bill James Day Bill Skowron, Luis Tiant, Dave Laroche Joe Kelley, Dennis Martinez, Bill James Jack Cronin, Bobo Newsome, Bill James

Justin Thompson was the Tigers lefty you were thinking of for 1997, where he won 15 games and was Detroit's lone All-Star that year. #449 3 Tony Phillips 0.3% / Chad Bradford 0.3% / Alfredo Griffin 0.2% David Dellucci 0.02% / Lefty O'Doul 0.07% / Steve Sax 1% Chris Gomez 0.1% / Jody Reed 0.3% / Eric Owens 0.1% #450 5 Mike Fetters 0.05% / Fernando Valenzuela 0.6% / Shigetoshi Hasegawa 0.09% Chris Withrow 0.02% / Gaylord Perry 2% / Jaret Wright 0.2% Matt Treanor 0.05% / David Wells 2% / Steve Sparks 0.2%

Bobby Witt Sr. won 10 games for Texas and Oakland, but not the Angels, whom he never played for. That was the unrelated Mike Witt (who also didn't get to 2000 strikeouts). And Price does have 2K strikeouts but Alexander does not.

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Yep! Absolutely right - I was gonna blow it!

Grid 449 (aka the "Rickey Henderson can be used anywhere" grid): 1, and used two current LAD relievers. Tom Wilson 0.003 / Bill Lamar 0.002 / Phil Garner 0.08 Anthony Banda 0.04 / Johnny Mitchell 0.001 / Ben Chapman 0.3 Daniel Hudson 0.2 / Bryan Corey 0.006 / Enzo Hernández 0.6 450 - 34 (the only Braves pitcher to get 2K strikeouts and also pitch for the Dodgers is the most popular choice) Josh Wall 0.006 / Fernando Valenzuela 0.6 / Tommy John 0.2 Gus Felix 0.001 / Greg Maddux 32 / Pat Ragan 0.003 Pete Wojey 0.005 / Bobo Newsom 0.6 / Ownie Carroll 0.001